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When Klansmen in Texas targeted Vietnamese fishermen

The tensions in “The Fishermen and the Dragon” are queasily topical today

Vietnamese fisherman Nam Van Nguyen stands on the deck of his shrimp boat in Galveston Bay in March of 1981.Photograph by John R. Van Beekum. All rights reserved.

The Fishermen and the Dragon. By Kirk Wallace Johnson. Viking; 384 pages; $28

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